 | Dr. Laurence H. Raney, MD
Division Director, Associate Professor |
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Meet the next class of interns! Well, we are firmly into the new residency and faired exceptionally well with our second year of matches- including two students from our own MUSC and one from the University of South Carolina as well! Click the above link to meet the class of 2011. A lot of other big changes have been happening-these are exciting times. Our first class has made huge strides over the last several months with everyone getting a sense that they are maturing and "feeling at home". Their level of comfort in everyday running of the business and department has given us all a great sense of pride and accomplishment. They are ready to begin their new role as mentors of the next set of interns. We successfully opened our Chest Pain Center in the new Ashley River Tower (ART) building. As we suspected, the numbers are not very high yet, so for now our residents are not staffing this facility. However, due to opening this facility and beginning to help staff the pediatric ED, we have needed to grow our faculty. Over the last year we have added 10 new faculty members to our staff, including one well known researcher from Cincinnati (more below). As of July, what began 8 years ago as a group of 16 physicians and three staff will have grown to 28 attending physicians, 12 residents, seven upper-level providers, a research nurse, and five administrative assistants. When our full complement of residents is reached a little more than a year from now, we will have over sixty souls in our department-quite a big increase! This year we really got off the ground with research. We successfully recruited Edward Jauch, MD from Cincinnati, who will be joining us in July. Dr. Jauch is very well known in the field of Emergency Stroke research, in both the EM and Neurology camps. He received both his MD and EM residency training at Cincinnati and currently serves as their Associate Research Director. He will be working with our Neurology colleagues in acute stroke research as well as in the establishment of MUSC's REACH project ( a state-wide acute stroke network to improve rapid diagnosis and treatment). As for the ED renovations, we are finally underway! Phase A of the plan has begun and is going well. This will be about a two-year project all told and will leave us with a new 44 bed ED designed to handle 65,000-70,000 visits per year. Part and parcel of this project is one that will give our young residency a new "home" on the second floor above the ED. This project (due for completion in a few months) will give us office spaces for all core faculty and administrators, as well as desk and storage space for all our residents. There will also be lockers, a shower and a good-sized resident lounge with attached kitchenette. Considering we have had essentially nothing before, this is a highly anticipated event! And the best news for last-we have begun the process of changing from a Division of Medicine to be our own Department. Under the guidance of our Chairman, Dr. John Feussner, we have grown and accomplished a great deal, some of it mentioned here. Dr. Feussner has always said that his role was to guide us towards becoming an independent Department, and it would appear the time has come. Working with Dean Jerry Reves, it is our goal to make this happen by 2010. If all goes as hoped, our first class of graduating residents will graduate from the Department of Emergency Medicine, operating out of a brand new ED!! |
